HY 102 Chapter 25
How did lenin respond to the peasants' seizure of land when he rose to power in 1917?
He mandated land reform in order to offer his approval for what the peasants had already done.
According to the text, Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War...
Helped the Bolsheviks, who could appeal to patriotic nationalism against the Allies
What did Germany's Auxiliary Service Law require?
It required all men between seventeen and sixty to work at jobs considered critical to the war effort.
Which of the following best characterizes the February Revolution in Russia in 1917?
It was the result of an unplanned uprising of hungry and angry people in the capital.
All of the following nations joined the war on the side of the Central Powers except
Italy
Bismarck's alliance system was designed to isolate France and
Maintain peace between Russia and Austria-Hungary.
What did the Petrograd Soviet Army Order No. 1 state?
Military officers were stripped of their authority and power was placed in the hands of elected committees of soldiers.
Following the First World War, one of the most difficult domestic problems faced by governments was...
Providing care for the large number of injured veterans.
What were both of the two-front wars that military planners had anticipated prior to the First World War?
Russia had assumed a two-front war against Germany and Austria-Hungary and Germany had assumed a two-front war against Russia and France.
How did lenin and Bolsheviks' view of the marxian party in Russia differ from the Mensheviks' view of the party
The Bolsheviks wanted a small, disciplined party, while the Mensheviks wanted a democratic party with mass membership.
How did the war on the eastern front differ from the war on the western front?
The war on the eastern front remained more mobile, with Germany in a more dominant position.
How did the moderate Social Democrats in Germany put down the radical communist Spartacist Uprising?
They called on bands of demobilized soldiers called Free Corps to crush the uprising.
What was the primary political weakness of the White forces as they fought against the Bolsheviks?
They had a poorly defined political program that failed to unite the enemies of the Bolsheviks.
Grigori Rasputin was assassinated by
members of the high aristocracy.
Walter Rathenau is remembered for his
role in Germany's total war mobilization.
Germany's last, all-out effort for victory on the western Front was defeated in 1918 at
the Second Battle of the Marne.
Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points called for all of the following except
the punishment of war criminals
Following the war, the principle of national self-determination was flawed in its application in all the following ways except?
the victorious powers sought to create puppet states throughout central Europe
As the war began, how did leading politicians and intellectuals present the war to their publics?
As a threat to the existence of the nation
What was the primary consequence of the First Moroccan Crisis in 1905?
Britain, France, and Russia began to see Germany as a threat.
Tensions between Germany and Great Britain in the first decade of the 1900s were raised by all of the following except
Great Britain's new tariffs that prevented the import of German chemical products.
What was the principle of national self-determination that Woodrow Wilson promoted?
People should be able to choose their own national government through a democratic process and live free from outside interference
Germany's initial offensive was stopped on the outskirts of Paris at the Battle of?
The Marne.
Why did war in the Balkans appear inevitable from 1900-1914?
The Ottoman Empire had been forced to give up its territory in the region, leading to growing ethnic nationalism.
What happened to the Ukraine and Belarus that the Soviet Union seceded to Germany in the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk?
The Soviet Union reconquered those territories during its civil war.
Why did the German military command recommence submarine warfare in the Atlantic despite knowing that it would lead the United States to enter the war against them?
They believed that improved submarines could starve Britain into submission before the United States could come to Britain's rescue
What was the Sykes-Picot Agreement of 1916?
An agreement between Great Britain and France to divide up parts of the Near East and Middle East after the war
After the conclusion of World War I, Austria-Hungary?
Broke apart into several nation-states
What part of Bismarck's alliance system did William II abandon?
Germany's non-aggression pact with Russia.
Throughout the First World War, what mistake did military commanders repeatedly make?
They attempted to mount massive offensives designed to break through entrenched lines.
At the Paris Peace Conference, French premier Georges Clemenceau
Wanted to create a buffer state between Germany and France.
How did the Western powers react to the declarations of independence by Syria and Iraq shortly following the First World War?
Western powers invaded the two regions and defeated the independence movements
The war affected women in all of the following ways
a new image emerged that highly restricted women's sexuality and public appearance in the new work environment and public places.
During the First World War, the African colonial subjects of Britain and France
generally supported their foreign masters
